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All right, here we go. Can you do the intro thing?

Oh, sure. And now a masterclass on joke telling with your instructor, Brian Hansen.

Assisted by ChatGPT. I was having a hard time come up with a joke.

Well, I applaud you on crediting. Yeah, Jack, Chap, GPT, everyone doesn't do that.

Yeah, my prompt was, please write a subtle, intelligent joke without using puns,

involving a possum shopping at Walmart.

So this is what it said.

So is this with the masterclasses, how to use chat GPT to create. Yeah, there's going to be a point

when I don't recommend it. Okay. Just using artificial intelligence at all. But this is not that point.

We're not at that point. Got it. Okay. So its response was a possum waddles up to the Walmart checkout

with a cart full of canned beans and a single neck pillow.

The cashier chuckles stocking up for the apocalypse.

The possum stares blankly.

It's always the apocalypse.

Now, to be sure, I don't completely understand it.

I don't have to.

Yeah.

It makes me happy.

It's very subtle.

It makes me happy that a possum face at any day, it can all fall apart because that's what I think.

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